I did set the alt text in the media area, and that is why I think there might be some conflict somewhere because it is not appearing on the frontend.

Also, when I “inspect element” on Google Chrome, I see the slideshow headline as H1, but when I look at the source code it does not seem to be wrapped in <h1> </h1>. I also checked with a SEO crawling tool to look for H1s and it did not label it as H1. I found this to be weird.